The International Symposium on Transformative Leadership and Decolonial Praxis is an educational leadership meeting for practitioners, community members, faculty, both local and international and graduate students to network and share their research. We invite scholars, practitioners, community members, faculty and graduate students to share their research and insights in educational leadership.
Please note the deadline for submission is April 04th, 2020.
Learn more and submit a presentation: https://tinyurl.com/vfkd7rd

Profs Marcelo Vieta, AECD/OISE and Fiona Duguid, Cape Breton University, explain how co-operatives can and should be key to Canada's economic rebuilding and rethinking - now and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caroline Alphonso is The Globe and Mail's education reporter, covering issues in kindergarten through to Grade 12. Caroline joined the LHA 6008: Special Topics - Current Issues and Controversies in Ontario Educational Policy class to share an inside look at the relationship between news media and educational policy.

Amani Hitimana, Adult Ed PhD student, firmly believes that volunteering is imperative to improving society. He is the newly appointed chair of the national advisory committee for Canada's Volunteer Awards.

In Workers' Self-Management in Argentina, AECD Professor, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina's worker-recuperated enterprises. Grounded in class-struggle Marxism and a critical sociology of work, the book situates the ERT movement in Argentina's long tradition of working-class activism and the broader history of workers' responses to capitalist crisis.

Professor Leesa Wheelahan has been reappointed to the William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership
for a second five-year term. The Davis Chair was established in 1999 to support and recognize distinguished and relevant expertise in Community College Leadership in OISE's Higher Education program,
and has been held by Professor Wheelahan since she joined OISE in 2014.

Dr. Karen Mundy, Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, has been appointed to the UNESCO International Commission on the Futures of Education. Launched on September 26 at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York, the initiative aims to re-imagine how knowledge and learning can shape the futures of humanity in a context of increasing complexity, uncertainty and precarity.

7 university leaders contemplate the future of higher education in Canada. They affirm that universities have a vital role to play in helping society navigate through the deepest challenges of our time, from climate change to the dangers of misinformation and rising intolerance.

In the TDSB Beginning Teacher Equity Conference in downtown Toronto. Sharla Falodi and Farah Rahemtula, both learning coaches at the Toronto District School Board, focus on learning about microaggressions and the difference between intention and impact.

The National Advisory Council on Poverty (Advisory Council) brings together persons with lived experience, leaders, experts, academics, and practitioners that work in the field of poverty reduction to advise the Government of Canada on its strategy and produce a report on the Government's progress toward meeting poverty reduction targets every year.

Professor Alex Abramovich and Associate Professor Lori Ross - both of U of T's Dalla Lana School of Public Health - helped develop 23 recommendations that were presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health in June.

On June 24 and 25, OISE welcomed over 175 practitioners, policy-makers and students from across Canada and over 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe to participate in the 2019 Shaping Sustainable Futures for Internationalization in Higher Education (SSFIHE) conference.